Club Harlem Show in Atlantic City

History

From V. Holly

The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, which Ralph Hunter, Sr. founded, and the Atlantic City Free Public Library will pay homage to the legendary Club Harlem on Kentucky Avenue with a special exhibit “A Pictorial of Club Harlem and the Way We Were.” The exhibit will be on display in the Main Library meeting room all of February in celebration of Black History Month.

Andrew Morrison’s Quick Business Tips

Business

Studies suggest that most people give up on their New Year’s Resolutions within 30 days. You don’t have to be like most people. This year can still become your best year. Now is not the time to give up. Writing your book, starting a non-profit, expanding your business, saving money and advancing in your career can still happen.

By February 1st you will be 1/12 of the way toward the end of the year. Do you feel as if you are 1/12th of the way toward reaching your goals? Will the month of January be a reflection of the rest of the year?

Here are a few quick tips to keep you motivated all year-round:

New legislation to help Harlem Businesses

Business

New legislation will help bodega and small business owners finance energy efficiency retrofits

On Tuesday January 26, 2010 at 10:30am, Congressman Steve Israel (D – Long Island) and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer will join with the President of the Bodega Association of the United States Ramon Murphy to announce a new green bodega initiative to help bodega and other small business owners save money on their energy bills by boosting their energy efficiency. Congressman Israel is introducing federal legislation that will assist small businesses, like bodegas, who want to go green.

Metro North’s Harlem Line Out of Service

Weather

Metro-North’s Harlem line is delayed, but running again after downed trees put the line out of service this afternoon. Busing is in effect between the Pleasantville and Mount Kisco.

Service on the New Canaan branch is also suspended because of signal problems caused by a downed tree. Busing is in effect at the branch.

WCBS reporter Catherine Cioffi spoke with Metro-North’s Dan Brucker who says the tracks are a mess.

All day trees have been falling on tracks as well as cars, but Brucker says works are busy getting trees off the tracks and clearing for the evening rush.

“We have track workers all over with buzzsaws, cutting up the trees,” he said. “But every time they get one off, another one falls.”

His advice to riders at Grand Central Terminal?

“Be as patient as possible. We’re working as hard as we can to get our trains freed up and running.”

Stay with WCBS 880 as we bring you the latest.

AP

Mount Morris Talk: With Jamal Joseph

News

On Thursday, February 4, from 6:30-8:00 PM, MMPCIA welcomes filmmaker and educator Jamal Joseph as its speaker for Mount Morris Talks! — a series of conversations between the community and leaders, news makers, artists, authors and thinkers who live in the Harlem area.

Jamal Joseph is chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program, co-founder and executive artistic director of the IMPACT Repertory Theatre of Harlem, executive artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group and an Oscar nominee.

It all started back in the ’80s — when he was an inmate at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, KS. There, imprisoned for harboring a fugitive in a fatal armored car robbery, he earned two college degrees, wrote five plays and two volumes of poetry, and founded a theater company that brought together prisoners who’d previously been divided by race, culture and beliefs.

NYC Life Expectancy Beats USA Average

Health

Deaths from many leading causes fell in 2008; alcohol deaths remain high; teen pregnancy still too common

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley today announced that life expectancy for New Yorkers born in 2007 has increased to an average of 79.4 years – a gain of nearly 5 months since 2006, and the longest average life expectancy ever recorded in New York City . Life expectancy has shot up by a year and 7 months since 2001, exceeding national gains, and has now reached 82 years for women and 76.3 years for men. The Mayor and Commissioner made the announcement as the Health Department published new findings in its Annual Summary of Vital Statistics. Besides charting an increase in life expectancy for 2007, the report provides detailed statistics on births and deaths in 2008. The overall death rate remained at an historic low – and deaths from many preventable causes declined.

Walter’s World: Ida from On the Block

Dance

From Walter Rutledge

Ida an excerpt from On The Block a one act full evening ballet based on the six panel moral The Block by renowned artist Romare Bearden.

Ida is a prostitute. In the 50′s whores in Harlem would jingle their keys in let “johns” know they were in business. After she is taken advantage of by a group of men she meets an artist.

America’s New Racial Reality: from Harlem to Hawaii

Race

Obama is not above all this, but he has made savvy political calculations and has taken pains, in the name of “civility,” to eschew any display of his own anger. His denunciation of Jeremiah Wright’s jeremiads were a necessary pre-election affirmation of the old deal. Angry black men need not apply. Obama’s repudiation of his own use of the word “stupidly” to characterize the Cambridge police department headed off a losing confrontation with police unions everywhere. And his current refusal to be drawn into a racial analysis of Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” is at the service of a focused political effort to get health-care reform through Congress. Civility is a virtue, but it is also a trump card.

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Presidents Weekly Address: Fighting for the Public Against Special Interests

The President talks about his first year fighting against special interests and barring…

… lobbyists from his Administration, as well as the fight to come in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision. January 23, 2009.

Celebrating Amiri Baraka’s 75th Birthday

News

Fusha Dance Company celebrates Amiri Baraka’s 75th Birthday with an African dance from the Congo called Hamba (which is a female war dance), they honor his life’s work as a spiritual warrior. The event took place at the Schomburg in Harlem NYC with.

First Sunday Service Praise Break in Harlem

Faith

Just a little clip of the beginning of Sunday service at Childs Memorial COGIC in Harlem, NY 1765 Amsterdam Ave! Harlem at it’s best.

Harlem for Haiti Candlelight Vigil

Cause

On January 18, 2010, a candle light vigil was held in Harlem, NY for the people of Haiti. There were prayers and singing and lots of solidarity.